Friday, May 07, 2010

Before midnight, an eternity ago, Andrew Neil on BBC 1 conducted a bizarre four-way interview at an election cocktail party on a boat with Tony Parsons (cocky), Joan Collins, Victor Meldrew and Armando Iannucci, during which the last complained that the British people had, essentially, chickened out of voting for the Lib Dems even though they wanted to. This confirmed what I had dimly suspected about Iannucci – that he is a staggeringly arrogant git who hates people and thinks everyone but himself is an idiot. Luckily he also makes funny programmes. Contra Armando, the dismal failure of the Lib Dems to live up to the hype reveals (1) that “who do you think did well in the debate?” is a different question to “who will you vote for?”; and (2) that people didn’t vote Lib Dem yesterday because the Lib Dems have all the same bad policies they had at the last election.

Go Gaw, go.Exceeded only by this mornings insight into bedlam, the truly revolting...Dimbleby, that pompous-smug beneficiary of nepotism. The truly gruesome...Robinson and Wark. The truly batty..Schama. The staggeringly stupid...the academic squatting to (our) left of Dimbleby.The staggeringly stupid academic at one point talked about "the 1974-6 period of political stability" The politico's may have been stable, the country was heading into oblivion.The truly gruesome Robinson kept up his Worma Grimetongue act throughout, the truly gruesome Wark was, unfortunately in the train, not under it.The smug little s-it Dimbleby perched his specs on the end of his nose.

I loved it when Sadik Khan won Tooting, his supporters chanted 'Yes we khan' and Dimbleby, with his enormously superior knowledge of the world, explained to all his dim, unappetising, provincial viewers that what they were chanting was a 'vulgarisation of a slogan used during the recent American presidential elections.' And what a relief that someone else doesn't adore Ianucci - if only he didn't write such funny things, so I could dislike him without ambivalence.